Ten Years On, Authorities Proving Very Capable Of Entrapping Idiots And Calling It A Terrorism Bust

The sentencing judge blasts the types of “terrorism” cases that the mayor and the feds are pinning their counter-terrorism cred on:

“I’m not proud of my government for what it did in this case,” Manhattan federal Judge Colleen McMahon said before sentencing the last of the anti-Semitic schemers.

Just days before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, McMahon said the convicted conspirators could be considered terrorists only “because the government made them terrorists.”

“The essence of what occurred here was that a government, understandably zealous to protect its citizens, created acts of terrorism out of the fantasies and the bravado and the bigotry of one man in particular and four men generally, and then made these fantasies come true,” she said.

The remarks followed McMahon’s admission last year that she had been privately referring to the plotters’ arrests and prosecution as “the un-terrorist case.”

This is the same case that the police commissioner and mayor ostentatiously praised back in 2009 and is it really different than many of the so-called “13 plots” that authorities have “thwarted”? The Herald Square case in particular seems just as sketchy.